Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government"

Peter Benenson, Lawyer

"The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970"

Tom Hayden, Politician

"In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely; it was, after all, the center for interrogations for Iraq"

Janis Karpinski, Soldier

"If you are charged with this responsibility of enhancing interrogations, or using soldiers to enhance interrogations to find Saddam, and you're above the law for all practical purposes, you might try some unusual techniques. Now we know that, in fact, they did"

Janis Karpinski, Soldier

"I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy"

Joseph Epstein, Writer

"We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations to see if we can persuade the Syrian authorities to go, as I say, more in that direction of respect for democracy and human rights"

William Hague, Politician

"Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria"

William Hague, Politician

"Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with"

Myriam Miedzian, Actress

"Let me say this: I believe closing Guantanamo is in our nation's national security interest. Guantanamo is used not only by al-Qaida, but also by other nations, governments, and individuals - people good and bad - as a symbol of America's abuse of Muslims, and it is fanning the flames of anti-Americanism around the world"

Diane Feinstein, Politician

"In November 2000, the Republicans stole from America our most precious right of all: the right to free and fair elections... Now President Bush occupies the White House, but with questionable legitimacy"

Cynthia McKinney, Politician

"We see violence: to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders, and corruption"

Claudio Hummes

"The Women of the Storm made a big difference for me, because it really put some real-life faces with the situation, and not just politicians"

Lynn Westmoreland, Politician

"I think these ladies, that group of 130 women, are going to make a difference in what goes on down there, because they're going to hold the locals' feet to the fire"

Lynn Westmoreland, Politician

"I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops"

Tim Meadows, Comedian

"I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me"

Stanley Fish, Writer

"This brought on the news media, TV crews, interviews, and numerous public appearances"

Ryan White, Celebrity

"We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time"

Robert Dale Owen, Politician

"The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man"

Louis Farrakhan, Activist

"The idea of photographing an Arab man naked and having him simulate homosexual activity, and having an American GI woman in the photographs, is the end of society in their eyes"

Seymour Hersh, Journalist

"No one can live under degradation"

Walid Jumblatt, Politician

"Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death, asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer"

William Hull, Soldier

"Arresting and detaining these dangerous people can make sense, at least until a final decision is reached on their deportation. However, such detention must always be subject to time limits and court review"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"I think it's appropriate for the international community in situations like this to intervene in Kosovo. I am in favor of an intervention. On some level, you have to say that at least somebody is doing something"

Mike Farrell, Actor

"In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law"

Nong Duc Manh, Politician

"The Bush administration does not desire to see Islam practiced in its pristine purity"

Louis Farrakhan, Activist

"Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better"

Joan Blades, Businessman

"Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history"

John Shimkus, Politician

"One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism"

Joseph Epstein, Writer

"We need to fix this. It hasn't been done yet because there's still a reluctance to admit that there was even a problem - anywhere above seven rogue soldiers who got out of control on the night shift"

Janis Karpinski, Soldier

"If they conducted a raid in this room, you'd all be policed up. They'd take all of you to Abu Ghraib and turn you over to the soldiers. Maybe there's only one or two of you in this group who was a known associate or had any piece of information that they are trying to exploit"

Janis Karpinski, Soldier

"I considered myself engaged in a war from Day One. And my objective was to force the federal government - the Kennedy administration at that time - into a position where they would have to use the United States military force to enforce my rights as a citizen"

James H. Meredith

"Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous"

Robert Dale Owen, Politician

"With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated"

Jenny Shipley, Statesman

"A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money"

William Baldwin, Actor

"American foreign policy has been - and must continue to be - based on unequivocal support for Israel's right to exist and to be free from terror"

Howard Berman, Politician

"To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse"

Robert Shea, Author

"I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator"

Rand Paul, Politician

"I can't believe the pro-choicers' attitude toward unborn children--to me, it's the ultimate liberal cause, to defend those without a voice"

Michael Aston, Musician

"But I think it's very key that there's a plan for Haiti. And we have to begin to - as progressives and people who are concerned about Haiti and have been concerned about Haiti, we have to begin to build some sort of consensus, a movement around the Haiti that the Haitians envision"

Danny Glover, Actor

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